Lanacom

Lanacom was a software firm based in Toronto, founded by ex-Delrina executive Tony Davis. It focused on "push" content software for the Internet. In early 1997 the firm released a product called "Headliner", a program which automatically collated and delivered content derived from Internet sources. It offered several different types of interfaces for the end-user: Ticker (news ticker), NewsTitle (just the news titles) and ScreenSaver.

The firm was bought out in July 1997 by .

References[]

• "Delrina Winfax creator joins news gathering biz - Lanacom's Headliner Internet information management software", Computing Canada, January 6, 1997

External links[]

• "Integrated Tools to Raise the Value, Lower the Cost of Implementing Enterprise Push" - BackWeb Press Release^{[permanent dead link]}